Today's Mudline

September 26, 2017

Anderson Cooper on Sean Spicer: "Doesn't have to lie for a living anymore. Now he just seems to be doing it recreationally."....Trump on protesting NFL players: "Sons of bitches."....sports commentator Anthony F. Irwin on Trump: "Quicker and more vehement in his hatred of Colin Kaepernick's non-violent protest than he was of Nazis."....Cincinnati Bengal George Iloka on Trump: "A real life clown/troll."....Buffalo Bill LeSean McCoy on Trump: "Acting like a jerk."....Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on NFL players: "They can do free speech on their own time."....Rep. Ted Lieu on Mnuchin: "You are as stupid as a rock. US Constitution also applied to NFL players."....Howard Dean: "McCain spent five years in a Vietnam prison refusing to leave until all Americans were free. Trump is a whiney twerp by comparison."....Trump: "Make the United Nations great. Not 'again.' Make the United Nations great...When do you see the UN solving problems? They don't. They cause problems."....Trump on Kim Jun Un: "Little Rocket Man."....Sen. Orrin Hatch on Kim Jung Un: "That little bastard."....Fred Kaplan on Trump UN speech: "Painted a picture of the world as a dark place of anarchy and aggression -- and his vision of a desired future was no brighter or more orderly."....Lawrence O'Donnell on Trump speech: "The worst ever delivered by the United States at the United Nations."....Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif: "Trump's ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times."....Jimmy Kimmel on Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Lied to my face."....Sen. Lindsey Graham on Kimmel remark: "Garbage."....Gov. Chris Christie on Kimmel: "He's not a serious person."....Brian Kilmeade on Kimmel: "Hollywood elite."....Keith Olbermann on Kilmeade: "The Eddie Haskell of Fox News."....Kimmel: "This is a guy, Brian Kilmeade, who whenever I see him kisses my ass like a little boy meeting Batman...A phony little creep. I'll pound you when I see you."....Trump on Iran deal: "An embarrassment to the United States."....Anti-Defamation League on Milos Yiannopoulos: "A misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, transphobic troll who is extremely good at getting people to pay attention to him."....UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof on Yiannopoulos' 30-minute-long Free Speech Week: "The most expensive photo op in the university's history."....Charles Murray on Yiannopoulos: "A despicable a**hole."....CA Gov. Jerry Brown: "You should check out the derivation of 'Trump-ite' and 'troglodyte,' because they both refer to people who dwell in deep, dark caves."....Gore Vidal on Trump: "His towering achievement is he listened to nobody, ever."....Albert Brooks: "Melania Trump condemned bullying at the UN today. She then looked at her husband, laughed, and said, 'I'm just kidding.'"....

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